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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 1 Num. 61
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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The local all-volunteer radio station, WEFT 90.1 FM, has a show
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that runs from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. every Saturday (Saturn's Day)
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morning. The show, called "News from Neptune," takes its title
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from a remark made by some television producer when asked about
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getting Noam Chomsky to appear on a show: "What? We can't have
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him on. That guy's from Neptune." The idea is, that if you try to
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talk seriously about a subject, beyond the pre-arranged,
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allowable limits already put in place by the mass media, you are
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going to sound (to the already brainwashed) as if you are from
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Neptune.
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The following is an excerpt from the July 23, 1994, "News from
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Neptune" broadcast. Co-hosts are Carl Estabrook and Paul "The
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Truth" Muth.
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[...]
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PAUL MUTH: Well, um. We have just a couple of minutes. Any, any
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"nuggets" at hand? I'm sure there were quite a few other things
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that uh, could be commented on today.
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CARL ESTABROOK: I have one "nugget" that really is quite that,
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too. If you didn't see, on Tuesday evening, Michael Moore's
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remarkable program on NBC, called "TV Nation" {1}, keep your eyes
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open for it again.
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Michael Moore made "Roger and Me" and was *briefly* the editor of
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the magazine *Mother Jones*, until the rich liberals who own
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*Mother Jones* threw him out. Um, but he's a *very* clever man.
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And he has made, remarkably enough on network TV, the most
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incisive political comment in an hours...
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MUTH: And there are 5 more shows before he's cancelled too,
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apparently! Unless they do something...
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ESTABROOK: Yeah. They're not only very good, they're very funny.
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I recommend it highly. See "TV Nation" when it comes on on
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Tuesdays.
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MUTH: Really some inspirational sorts of setups [laughs]. I like
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the one, "How would you say, in Spanish, to the fellow on the
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line there, 'You're fired, when you get your hand out of the
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machine.'"
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ESTABROOK: Right.
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MUTH: You get your hands out of the machine, you're fired.
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ESTABROOK: Yeah. It was interesting to read the reviews in the
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[New York] *Times* and places like that. Because they were um,
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sort of *abashed*! I mean, respectful of the class and humor with
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which the things were made, but you could see they were clearly
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astonished that this stuff had got on network TV [laughs]. And as
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you say, it will be interesting to see how long it runs.
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MUTH: I think they might be collectors items.
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ESTABROOK: I think they might be.
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MUTH: I guess there's 6 more. I think 7, all told, that he's
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being allowed.
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ESTABROOK: Well. One wishes him luck.
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[...]
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-------------------------<< Notes >>-----------------------------
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{1} "TV Nation." No connection with "Conspiracy Nation." Tuesday
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evenings, 7 pm cst, NBC.
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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